ISE® Central Executive Forum and Awards 2019

ISE® Central

The ISE® Central Executive Forum and Awards 2019 will be held May 15, 2019 at The Westin Galleria Dallas in Dallas, TX. The Forum includes keynote speakers, interactive roundtables moderated by the CISOs and VPs of participating companies, and hot topic panel discussions. The one day program offers the opportunity to meet with peers and leading IT executives from across the region to discuss and share insights into today's issues and solutions.

The ISE® Central Awards are held in conjunction with a one day Executive Forum which includes keynote speakers, interactive roundtables moderated by the CISOs and VPs of participating companies, and hot topic panel discussions. The one day program offers the opportunity to meet with peers and leading IT executives from across the region to discuss and share insights into today's issues and solutions.

AT&T’s Smart City Security Simulator is a training and visualization tool that demonstrates security aspects of various IoT and Smart City technologies and allows users to run cyber-attack scenarios while learning about potential outcomes provided by intelligent simulation engine. The Security Simulator is made up of a physical model of a city, augmented reality components, and planned remote virtual experiences. The project is designed to be flexible for future alignment with future corporate Smart City plans.

Horace Mann set out to merge their NOC and SOC together into a single, blended platform creating an IOC (Integrated Operations Center) - one platform ingesting two environments. The team introduced security orchestration, automation and incident response tools to replace antiquated manual processes. This allowed them to meet mandated governance and compliance and decrease auditor enhanced fatigue. In parallel, the project delivered metrics driven report functionality for risk management that allowed newly created operational activities to be identified, addressed, and aligned to support Horace Mann’s business goals and objectives, including, meeting regulatory compliance for oversight transparency.

As part of a Digital Transformation initiative centered on Identity and Access Management, this project focuses on both enterprise access governance and enterprise access management. This initiative has two components: Enterprise User Access Management (EUAM) and Shell Identity Management (SIM). The project aims to automate the various security controls within Shell for all business-critical applications. This would bring all business-critical application on a common platform in terms of access management. The goal is to bring in the complete Segregation of Duties (SOD) ruleset of Shell under an automated platform to manage SOD, which is currently being done using spreadsheets or legacy tools. This will help enable automated certification campaigns for 60,000 users across the globe and insure compliance and satisfaction of audit requirements.